TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Anemia
A1  - Vanasse, Gary J.
A2  - Williams, Brie A.
A2  - Chang, Anna
A2  - Ahalt, Cyrus
A2  - Chen, Helen
A2  - Conant, Rebecca
A2  - Landefeld, C. Seth
A2  - Ritchie, Christine
A2  - Yukawa, Michi
Y1  - 2014
N1  - 
T2  - Current Diagnosis & Treatment: Geriatrics, 2e
AB  - Anemia  is  a  common  condition  in  older  adults  and  is  an  increasingly  recognized  contributor  to  increased  morbidity  and  mortality.  Similar  to  the  younger  adult  anemic  patient,  anemia  in  older  adults  is  most  commonly  defined  according  to  the  1968  World  Health  Organization  (WHO)  criteria  of  a  hemoglobin  (Hgb)  <13  g/dL  in  men  and  <12  g/dL  in  women.  Although  anemia  has  often  been  considered  a  normal  consequence  of  aging,  its  association  with  adverse  clinical  outcomes  merits  a  thorough  evaluation  into  the  underlying  pathophysiology.  Recent  studies  suggest  that  anemia  may  arise  as  a  result  of  accumulated  effects  of  age-related  comorbidities  acting  in  concert  with  poorly  understood  age-specific  changes  in  early  hematopoietic  progenitors,  that  combine  to  influence  erythrocyte  production.  A  greater  understanding  of  the  pathogenesis  of  anemia  in  older  adults  will  likely  have  important  implications  for  the  prevention,  diagnosis,  and  therapy  of  this  common  problem.  
SN  - 
PB  - McGraw-Hill Education
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/16
UR  - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1100068320
ER  -